The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-05-07
Naws of the Week.

For plotting against the life of the Gar Of
Russia seven men have been condemned TO
death and others to servitude for life.
| At Pittsburg on Saturday true bills were
found against thirteen of the Pan Handle
employees arrested for robbing freight cars.
The public debt statement issued on Mon
day shows a reduction of $13, 053, 09S.
Total cash in the Treasury, $500, l05,896.
Last week 2,6lS emigrants left Queenstown
| for America. The total for the month of
April is 1854 against 1886 for April last
year.
Matthias Graeff, a prominent citizen of
Lancaster, Penna., and the last survivor there
of the war of 1872, died on Friday night at
the age of "a years.
Six more indictments for completely in the
election frauds last fall were presented by the
Grand Jury in st. Louis on Saturday. The
jury was then discharged.
An explosion occurred ON Saturday, at the
saw mill of the Paducah Lumber Company,
near Paducah, Kentucky, by which four men
were injured, two of them fatally.
Pleuro- pneumonia is reported to be more
prevalent in Chicago and its vicinity than
ever before. Last week, 5000 cows were in
quarantine, and 200 had been slaughtered.
The bodies of three colored men, brothers
named Sylvester, were found hanging from
tree near Proctor, Vest Virginia, last Friday.
Each bore placard accusing him of being
thief
Two sharp earthquake shocks, with only
moments intermission, were felt at Spokane
Falls, Wyoming Territory, at o'clock on
Saturday morning People were awakened
from their sleep.
A Mondays despatch said: The flood in
tba Kappahaa in Maine 9 increasing
and much damage has been done toproperty.
Millions of logs are going down with the flood,
which is the highest since 1870.
The weather at Pittsburg on Monday was
the warmest ever known at this season OF the
year. At four o'clock in the afternoon the
temperature was 95 in the shade, and at ten
o'clock at night it was IS degrees.
| Six tramps got into fight at the natural
gas well near Anderson, Indiana, last week,
and two of them were pushed into the flame
of the burning gas. One died almost instant
| ly from inhaling the fame, and the other was
fatally burned.
George Ayers and Henry Lindsay quarrell-
ed about debt of five dollars at Bowling
Green, Kentucky, on Saturday evening.
Lindsay was on horseback and dismounted,
when Ayers seized him by the throat and cut
| it from ca, . ear.
Mrs Herman Lyons was murdered near
Napa, California, in February last by farm
hand named Peter Olsen, who escaped. NJ.
II. Seibert, farmer, who lately settled near
! Bakersfield, was killed on Saturday by officers
who mistook him for Olsen.
Bridget Morgan, kitchen girl in hotel in
Chicago, while emitting bananas frgm bunch
last Friday evening, was bitten by tarantula
in the right thumb. In q short time her
hand and arm became terribly inflamed and
she suffered excruciating pain.
| A fire in Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday
morning, destroyed the large warehouse of
Brown, johnson Il Co., the nine. story, grain
| elevator of Strater Brothers, fourteen loaded
freight cars of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, two dwellings and two stables
| At Roseburg Station, twelve miles west of
Pittsburg, on Saturday, Abraham McCrea and
John Gibbs quarrelled over disparaging re-
mark made by the latter about young wo-
man. Gibbs struck McCrea on the head with
cane, and McCrea shot Gibbs in the face
At last accounts both were in critical con.
dition.
Edward F. Samuels, Appointment merchant
of st. Louis, last Friday afternoon jumped
from the bridge at Nashville into the river.
| He was fshed out, but died on Saturday
morning. He said his reason for attempting
suicide was BECAUSE he had broken o promise
made to.his wife that he would drink no
more intoxicating liquor.
Marker Bush died last week at the City
Poor Farm, Pittsburg, of softening of the
brain. He was for many years proprietor Of
the Bush House in Pittsburg, and at one time
also owned the Roint Breeze Hotel, Philadel-
phia. Reported to be worth $500, 900 few
years ago, he died ppQr, having gambled and
lost large sums by betting on horse races.
On Friday midnight band of regulators"
surrounded disreputable house near Win,
1 chester, Ohio, the occupants of which had
4 paid no attention to previous notices to leave.
When the leader knocked at the door and in
formed the occupants that they must leave, a
yolley of shots came from the windows,
wognding several of the party, one fatally.
The schooner Louie Q'Neill, GOAL laden, il
believed to have been sunk by collision off
Port Stanley, In Lake Erie, during gale on
Thursday night of last week. She and four
other schooners were in tow of the same tug,
when the line parted the 0'Neill oollided
| with one of the other vessels, her spars top
Piled over, and she disappeared. She had
| eight men on board.
A terrible hail storm visited St. Paul, Min.
nesota, and the surrounding country, at I
o'clock last Sunday evening. The hailstones
varied in size from pea to goose egg, some
of the largest weighing four ounces and meas
uring nine inches in circumference. Glass
was broken wherever exposed. A number of
ed by the wind. The day had been one of
summer heat
The Acting Secretary of the Interior has
directed the General Land Commissioner to
demand from the California and Oregon Rail.
| wav EomDanv n raoonvavanna to he TTn;tad
States of a'section of land in the Marysville
lCal. land district, patened to the company
March IL, 1870, it appearing, from special
reports and atidavits accompanying the same,
that said section is unquestionably gold bear
ing mineral land.
The body of DIR. C. E. Sayles, with the
carotid artery severed and knife in one
hand. was found last Saturday near Moor.
head, Minnesota. He was member of the
firm of Farmhouse & Sayles, of Valley City,
Dakota, which was compelled to suspend be-
cause Sayles was one of the bondsmen for
Pease, the defaulting treasurer of Barnes
county. 1t is supposed his suicide was caused
by the business trouble.
In Shaler township, near Pittsburg, Pa,
Sunday morning, Jennie Oswald, II years of
age, going into the dining room, found her
father, Charles Oswald, sitting in a chair
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Bessie, lying on a lounge dead. 1t was a case
Of suicide on the part of Oswald, and all the
signs indicate that he murdered his daughter
before cutting his own throat Oswald was
40 years of age, and had suffered family and
pecuniary trouble.
At Wethersfeld, Connecticut, last Friday
night, farmer named Cowles discovered a
tramp in his barn lighting match. He or
dered the tramp out, but the fellow drove out
Cowles with pitchfork, and deliberately fred
the barn. which was destroyed with its con-.
l-tents. The tramp remained inside until the
fire was past control, when he fed. He was
captured by Cowles and the neighbors, after
he had been crippled by buskshot and dubbed
with the stock of gun.
The body of James Foley, aged IL years,
was found wedged, Sunday morning, between
the bumpers of coal car and an oil tank in
Shenandoah, Pa. The boy bad been playing
around the cars with several companions on
Saturday evening" and when he was jammed
and killed they ran away and did not tell of
what had happened. He was not missed from
home that night. and the first intimation his
parents had of his death was when they were
informed of the discovery of the body.
The contract for the machinery of the pro-
posed paper and pulp mill at Harper's Ferry,
w. Va, has been given out. The contract
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